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5/8/12 Jive

Good evening, it’s Tuesday, May 8th, and this is the Jive at Five, WESU’s Daily community calendar and run down of night time programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown. Thanks for making WESU your listener supported source for NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public affairs and free-form community radio. I’m Avery

Tomorrow Evening, the Buttonwood Tree on main street presents “Evening Oasis” Belly Dance Presentation at 8pm, with beautiful dancers, traditional dress and music. Talented prose writers of every ilk come to Writers Out Loud to present up & coming works-in-progress, directly from their own pens. Join host, Cocomo Rock, and co-host, Al Bower, Jr. as six phenomenal storytellers sign up seeking constructive critique of their latest works in progress. Signups are at 6:30. Singer/songwriter Sean Ashby plays Guitar on Friday night on the Buttonwood stage, with opener Derek Knott.

Saturday night at 8, Karen Frisk & All-Star Trio play a jazz set called “Springtime groovin Food Not Bombs shares food about 1 pm in front of the Buttonwood. Anyone is welcome. Consider yourself invited to help the prepare vegetarian food at the First Church on 190 Court Street at 11:30 am. Later on Sunday, “Coming to the mic” is an open mic that will be filmed in its entirety to be aired on Comcast TV. Only those who agree to be viewed on TV should perform. All are welcome to participate as a performer or as audience. Produced and hosted by Ty Mapp, Sunday at 7:30. More information about all Buttonwood events at www.buttonwood.org or 860.347.4957

A new sound installation by Assistant Professor of Music Paula Matthusen, “work divided by time” reflects on how the scientific definition of energy resonates and clashes with cultural and historical concepts. On display through Sunday at the Van Vleck Observatory

The Wesleyan Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Private Lessons Teacher Peter Hadley, will perform an exciting array of pieces for winds and percussion. tonight at 8pm in Crowell Concert HallChoreographer Iddi Saaka, World Dance Artist in Residence, and Master Drummer Abraham Adzenyah will be performing with their students in West African Dance and West African Drumming in a free outdoor concert this Friday at 3pm in the Center for the Arts Courtyard

More information about all Wesleyan Arts events at Wesleyan.edu/cfa

Oddfellows Playhouse on Washington street in Middletown presents Our Town, this weekend and next.A Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in the early twentieth century, Our Town is famed for daring both the actors and audience to interact in order to weave the themes of family, marriage, death, and eternity into the story of what was daily life.Tickets available online at oddfellows.org

The Greater Middletown Chorale returns this season for another performance in the Bethany Covenant Church in Berlin this Saturday. Choral works will include works by these three ‘B’s’: Bernstein, Britten, and BrahmsFor more information or to purchase tickets call 860 316 4854.

Phoolan Devi, a new raw untouchable opera, will have its world premier on Saturday at 8pm in South Church in Middletown, CT. The composer is Gayathri Khemadasa, from Sri Lanka, currently a Fulbright scholar at Wesleyan University.

For more information, please visit the Opera website at phoolandeviopera.com/

In New Haven, SOUND HALL will present a rare discussion and performance by celebrated jazz collective, Chicago Underground Duo. Friday, 8PM at INTERCAMBIO, located at 756 Chapel Street, New Haven. more at soundhall.org

Hedda Kopf, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Quinnipiac University, leads a book discussion on Tom Rachman’s ‘The Imperfectionists’. Wednesday at 7 in the Russell Library’s Hubbard Room. More events online at russelllibrary.org

Tonight at Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema in Hartford, catch MONSIEUR LAZHAR, a comic and deeply compassionate story of a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant in Montreal who steps in as a substitute teacher after his predecessor commits suicide. Wednesday through Saturday Cinestudio shows SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN, the tale of a Yemeni sheikh who’s fallen under the spell of fly-fishing in Scotland dreams up a crazy plan: to stock his own (very dry) country with 10,000 North Atlantic salmon.

Tickets and more at cinestudio.org

Through Thursday at Real Art Ways in Hartford, see the documentary Gerhard Richter Painting, about One of the world’s greatest living painters. Opening Friday We Have A Pope tells the story of Melville, a cardinal who suddenly finds himself elected as the next Pope. Tonight, Real Art Ways hosts a special showing of the 60’s classic The Time Machine (1960), with a talk by Dr. Ronald Mallett, a professor of physics specializing in particle and field theory at the University of Connecticut, on the physics of time travel and the feasibility of building a time machine in the real world.

Saturday, Real Art ways hosts a special late-night showing of The ROOM, The best terrible movie ever, chock-full of communal rituals. Catch one of only three showings of How to Grow a Band this Friday, a documentary that follows Nickel Creek’s Chris Thile’s attempt to start a new band

Tickets, times, and more at realartways.org

Now stay tuned, here’s what’s playing on WESU tonight:

Right after the Jive at Five, its The Melting Pot Your host Kevin Lee plays a heady brew of old favorites, deep tracks and unheard delights. Rock to Jazz, Folk to Funk, Global to Local, Acoustic and Electric. My life is one big song, let me share it with you.”

Tuesday, 6-6:30pm Free Speech Radio News From The Pacifica Network Your daily dose of alternative international news and reporting from the Pacifica Network.

Tuesday, 6:30-8pm its Wild Wild Live with Tom Foolery Featuring the best music Wesleyan has to offer, in a live and intimate studio setting. Tom will talk about the Wesleyan music scene, on campus and off, and supplement live material with artist interviews and recordings of live shows across the Wesleyan campus.

At 8pm it’s Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill, offering an eclectic selection of Folk, Americana and other music that has a roots influence. Tonight, Appalachian-Gaelic singer Kyle Carey and her band will be live in the studio with Bill.

Tuesday, 930pm-11pmWonderland with DJ Cheshire CatI’ve got a song in my heart, a chemical imbalance in my head and a musical library at my fingers. From krautrock to post-rock, grunge to garage, novelty to New Romantic, punk to prog, Wonderland has a place for it.

Wednesday, 11pm-12amAlive, Not Amplified with AdrienBringing you the best in acoustic based music.

The BBC World News Service kicks on at 4AM and we begin tomorrow’s broadcast at 5am with Morning Edition from NPR.

That’s all for today’s Jive at Five, if you didn’t get a chance to write down some of the information mentioned in our community calendar, the script is published online at www.wesufm.org/jive, and if you know of any events that you’d like to have announced on the Jive, send them to jive@wesufm.org

That’s all for today’s Jive at Five, if you didn’t get a chance to write down some of the information mentioned in our community calendar, the script is published online at www.wesufm.org/jive, and if you know of any events that you’d like to have announced on the Jive, send them to jive@wesufm.orgIf you tune in to WESU for information and music that you can’t find elsewhere, then we are counting on you to help support the service you depend on.Please take a moment to make a donation of any size online at www.wesufm.org, every dollar counts and we need to hear from you.Thanks for listening and stay tuned for an hour of The Melting Pot